That’s just what happens when you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in the cage.

Why make up terms that no one knows what you’re talking about until you explain them? What they’re calling the “abundance agenda” is just the right-wing conservative agenda. "Regulations are the problem." It is also bundled with the big lie that has already doomed our civilization and a significant percent of the Earth’s biodiversity along with it: that infinite growth is possible on a finite planet. And it probably appeals to those fart-sniffing dipshits who can say the phrase “post-scarcity-society” with a straight face.

What they call the “populist agenda” is that corporate greed, regulatory capture, and concentration of wealth are the real problem. Which is the leftist take, and is also objectively true and pretty obvious to anyone paying attention. It also has nothing to do with what the word ‘populist’ is typically used to describe.

If you [ meaning the Democratic Party leadership ] can’t immediately see that aligning with the latter is the only reasonable path forward, for the one supposed opposition party in a two-party system against the Basically Literally Hitler party, without first polling voter sentiment to determine which side of your mouth to talk out of today, then how about you go commission another focus group on how best to fuck yourselves.

Bag of little isopod shaped robots. They are fast moving with nuclear batteries and tungsten carbide shells and lots of sharp edges for chewing and burrowing through flesh. They can also dig into the ground a few inches and hibernate like cicadas to protect an area. Not wireless networked but instead have onboard processing for voice commands, use sense of smell for IFF and echolocation to coordinate their swarming.

Couldn’t stop a gun, but they are a deterrent against using it because if you shoot me we both die but you die in a more horrible way.

Not sufficiently fascist leaning. It’s coming, Palantir’s just waiting for the go-ahead…

( Doubt )

They’re still on xitter, and they paid for blue checks. Who cares what opinion they hold on literally anything?

This is your brain on Thalasin+

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The thing that wasn’t working was something the previous junior programmer made just before leaving the company, and it never really worked right. The junior programmer in the picture was trying to fix it without understanding how it worked and broke 3 other things, so he’s been urgently trying to get all the things working together. The senior programmer doesn’t care if it was fixed the best way because he knows the whole system should be redone but he’ll be retiring before that happens.

That was my first reaction: what? Cats know names. Then… ohhh. Because it’s just her and the cat. The cat wouldn’t know your name if no one else is there to call you by it. Then, felt a bit sad. But not too sad, because cats are better than people anyway.

Polyploid!

It’s only a weakness in a world where those without it have been allowed the same rights to participate in society as the rest of us, and haven’t been made extinct. I’m not saying that’s what we should do, but I’m saying that’s what it would take to actually fix things.

Of course we’re not going to do it… because we have too much empathy for them. So they win. Again. As always, and until the bitter end of humanity.

Have you read Animal Farm? That. Is it conceivable that someday a people’s revolution would turn out otherwise? Sure. But I don’t see the American people as being the ones to pull it off.

Maximize paperclips

( And by “extreme,” we mean “contrived.” )

Rotting in the ground? Sounds like some woke carbon sequestration scheme. To the biodiesel rendering plant with you, peasant!

Sonic 1 had just come out for the Genesis and was hugely popular while In Living Color was on TV- and that awful live action Mario Bros movie hadn’t come out yet, so he probably would have been all for the idea.